The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-12
RAIN! WIND! FIRE! HEAT !
The Reports Which the Wires Flash Of The
Phenomenal Weather All over
the (puuYrv

\ heavy storm i'm the mountains has
caused a big rise in the upper Tennessee
1tlFer. Thousand. of logs lying iu the
river have escaped. The steamer Citico.
a mail boat plying between Kingston and
Loudon, was caught by d raft at Shines
BluH, near London, and dashed against
the bluff with such force as to burst the
cylinder head and tear away the smoke
stack and pilot house. Capt William
Allison and officer Dcarm0nd were
thrown into the river Dearmonl has
been badly soaldeI by the cscapiu-
steam.
The Armstrong Furniture companv'~
lumber yards and works at Evansville.
-nd., were discovered on fire and wer.
destroyed, together with several million
icet Of lumber and a number of cars,
The loss is over $500, 900. The water
supply became exhausted and the fire had
little opposition. Ten cars Of wheat.
Hour and grain were totally destroyed
md several empty cars, and one section
II the Peoria, Decatur & Evansvli.e
Railroad round house.
\ severe wind, rain and hail storm
swept over Louisville, Ky. 1t raincd in
torrents, and large hail-stoncs fell, Gov
ring the streets. The storm on the
river did considerable damage and life
saving crews and harbOr boats were kept
very busy.
\ terrific rain storm swept across
GaLobusha county, Miss, leyeling both
cotton and corn to the ground. Young
corn is almost totally DESTROYED.
The trcstle at Mount Madison. on III n.
NfF-t .tiIv,aI t.I
Is, Ga, was washed out and the pl.scn-
ger trains Were badly delayed
\ Pittsburg dispatch says that a fire
occurred by which the glass manulactu-
ing firms Of Mickey s. Co. and kim, Son
4 Co. sustained heavy losses. The local
loss is estimated at $3.50, 900, Of wGieh
Mickey & Co. lose 500, 600 q. 4 Kiny.
Son & Co. $50, 900 The Insurance. was
about SO, eco
During heavy Thunderstorm one If
the tanks Of The Atlantic Oil Refinery.
at Point Breeze, near Philadelphia, Pa,
was struck by lightning, and 500 barrel,
Of oil were DESTROYED.
The month Of July goes on record 0s
the hottest ever known in Philadelphia.
Pa. The highest number of deaths from
the effects of the heat in any one day
was tuirty-,Aree, on the 10th. and there
have been but few days when thcra wa-
zone reported, the numbers ranging
trOm hrcc to a dozen.
The steamer Umbria, of the Cun1rJ
Ljoe, reached her pier in New York III
very diIapid&tud condition. Her for
ward decks were swept clean and her
bridges were washed away. While go
I,,.r of r,-T
huge waves, said to be about fifty feet
nigh, struck her and broke over the deck
ahead Of the foremost The cabins and
steerage were flooded and Il panic oc-
CURED. The passengers put on life belts
and prepared for the worst. The vessel
trembyed violently when the masses Of
water deluged her decks.
Union City, 5. c., reports a singular
circumstance of a ClOudburst, described
as follows: "1he wind, when first noticed,
was from northwest to southeast and eX-
tended about a mile wide across the
country; blew over the country about
two mics, then turned exactly in the
oppO~ile direction, southeast to north
west, blooiny down considerable corn
in opposite directions amt in the differ
ent Localities through which it passed,
njuring it N some places seriously. The
same cloud came down suddenly while
the ground was dry, the cotton wjthcrcd,
and the sun was 50 hot that the cotton
was literally sca.ded, from top to bottom.
The oldest inhabitants sly they never
knew anEthing ike it, and there are
whole acres that apparently look dead,
the appearance Of frost having
fallen ON it, 1t is really curiosity, and
is worth coming from Union TO see.
What will be the outcome OF it is Uncar-
tain. The forms and stalks seem alive,
but the leaves are as crisp as when frost
falls on them. Our crop looked unusually
fine before this and it would have been
best for us not to have had the rain at
the time it came"
At HaIcdon village, two miles north
from Patterson, n. j., John ". Camp
bell. a wealthy milNman, sat in Isis cle,